The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1905 - 741 páginas |
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... mean abode , Oh with what peace , and joy , and love , She communes with her God ! " There like the nightingale she Her solitary lays ; pours Nor asks a witness of her song , Nor thirsts for human praise . " It is to be noted that most ...
... mean abode , Oh with what peace , and joy , and love , She communes with her God ! " There like the nightingale she Her solitary lays ; pours Nor asks a witness of her song , Nor thirsts for human praise . " It is to be noted that most ...
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... means so far away from Cowper's later satire as he supposes : what could be more exactly in that manner than the ridicule of the Berkleian philosophy , with the couplet- " And he that splits his cranium , breaks at most A fancied head ...
... means so far away from Cowper's later satire as he supposes : what could be more exactly in that manner than the ridicule of the Berkleian philosophy , with the couplet- " And he that splits his cranium , breaks at most A fancied head ...
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... means to show the town how well he can write ; and while he gains by knowing , what Cowper scarcely knows , that poetry demands a certain heightening , a something above the thoughts and feelings of the common hours of commonplace ...
... means to show the town how well he can write ; and while he gains by knowing , what Cowper scarcely knows , that poetry demands a certain heightening , a something above the thoughts and feelings of the common hours of commonplace ...
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... means of producing poetic effect could detract from the result where the story itself is told with an energy of concentration that comes straight from an experience written in burning letters on the poor poet's heart and brain . The ...
... means of producing poetic effect could detract from the result where the story itself is told with an energy of concentration that comes straight from an experience written in burning letters on the poor poet's heart and brain . The ...
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... mean time I perceive myself so flattered by the instances of illustrious success mentioned in your letter , that I feel all the amiable modesty , for which I was once so famous , sensibly giving way to a spirit of vainglory . The King's ...
... mean time I perceive myself so flattered by the instances of illustrious success mentioned in your letter , that I feel all the amiable modesty , for which I was once so famous , sensibly giving way to a spirit of vainglory . The King's ...
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Términos y frases comunes
beauty beneath Benham blest boast Bodham breast British Museum charms Child & Co DEAR FRIEND death delight divine dream earth edition eyes fair fame fancy fear feel GEORGE ROMNEY give glory grace hand happy hast Hayley Hayley's heart heaven Hill Homer honour hope John John Fenn John Gilpin John Johnson Johnson Joseph Hill labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh letter lines live Lord lyre mind Muse nature never Newton numbers o'er Olney Olney Hymns once pain peace perhaps pleasure poem poet poet's praise printed prove rest scene scorn seems shade shine skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound Southey stanza sweet Task tears tell thee theme thine things thou art thought translation truth Unwin Vaughan Johnson verse Vincent Bourne virtue Weston Weston Underwood WILLIAM COWPER wish Yaxham youth
Pasajes populares
Página 39 - Dear dying Lamb ! Thy precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed church of God Be saved, to sin no more.
Página 31 - OH for a closer walk with God ! A calm and heavenly frame ; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb...
Página 271 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it, too ; affectionate in look And tender in address,...
Página 429 - Toll for the brave ! Brave KEMPENFELT is gone ! His last sea-fight is fought ! His work of glory done ! It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ! She sprang no fatal leak ! She ran upon no rock...
Página 300 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 215 - AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Página 386 - Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he ? His fame soon spread around, He carries weight, he rides a race, 'Tis for a thousand pound.
Página 265 - Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ! that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Página 49 - The hand that gave it, still supplies The gracious light and heat ; His truths upon the nations rise, They rise, but never set. 4 Let everlasting thanks be thine, For such a bright display, As makes a world of darkness shine With beams of heavenly day.
Página 332 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. — His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —